Jamie Dornan on how his new character s uneasiness and lack of confidence is relatable to his own life
The Holywood native revealed he was able to plant all of his own oddness
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11 Dec 2020
On 11 November 2020, the National Leprechaun Museum, the keepers of the flame of whimsical Irish mythology and gentle storytelling, tweeted after watching the trailer for
Wild Mountain Thyme: “Even we think this is a bit much.” They’re not wrong. John Patrick Shanley’s woefully misjudged romantic drama, based on his play
Outside Mullingar, is more Irish than Bono drawing a four-leaf clover into a pint of Guinness, so full of rural quirk, magical enchantment and oversaturated tweeness it makes
Hunger. The cast, especially Emily Blunt and Jon Hamm, do their best to breathe real life into the fanciful proceedings, but it is let down by easy stereotypes, a botched tone, a distant relationship to authenticity and one truly brain-melting storytelling decision.
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SPIN s Sarina Bellissimo caught up with
Wild Mountain Thyme s Jamie Dornan and Emily Blunt for a chat this week.
The Irish broadcast exclusive interview aired on SPIN s
The Bellissimo Files earlier today.
If you missed it, or you wanted to watch rather than listen, you ve come to the right place.
Sarina kicked off the chat by asking Jamie how it feels to have a movie out amid the pandemic.
He admitted, It s strange. This is the third film I ve had out during this 2020 year.
Jamie said the first movie was quite small, so it made sense that it would be released digitally.
You re a weirdo, Jamie told Sarina before adding, Emily s a weirdo, we re all weirdos.
Sarina and Emily couldn t help but laugh at Jamie s comments as he continued, Anthony is like the king of the weirdos!
Emily chimed in, Oh that s going to be your autobiography, I love that. The King of the Weirdos. That s it, you heard it here.
Outside Mullingar.
It follows the story of a headstrong farmer named Rosemary Muldoon who s madly in love with her neighbour Anthony Reilly.
The problem is Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer.
It turns out Shanley told the actors that if their accents were spot on, nobody would understand them.
Jamie said, So, we re trying to find accents that everyone in the world will understand and that s what we feel we did. We re not going to lose any sleep over some people having a bit of fun with it.